Fw: [NDhighlights] #3872, Saturday - April 24, 2010: single infinite unity
sustains and is all in "my" awareness -- the finger that points at the Moon
is not the Moon: Rich Murray 2010.04.25
Many ways of pointing towards "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.".....
A Course in Miracles clarifies, "The Kingdom of Heaven IS you."
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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3872, Saturday, April 24, 2010
This "I am realization," this sense of your own presence, is not a thought.
It arises from beyond the mind.
So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but
also of yourself as the witness of the thought.
A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence -- your deeper
self -- behind or underneath the thought, as it were.
The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you
are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it.
As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, as it is sometimes called
in the East, you realize the state of pure consciousness.
In that state, you feel your own presence with such intensity and such joy
that all thinking, all emotions, your physical body, as well as the whole
external world become relatively insignificant in comparison to it.
And yet this is not a selfish but a selfless state.
It takes you beyond what you previously thought of as "your self."
That presence is essentially you and at the same time inconceivably greater
than you.
What I am trying to convey here may sound paradoxical or even contradictory,
but there is no other way that I can express it.
-- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
-- Katherine, from GreatFreedom.org: http://vimeo.com/11042298
I have not really known myself,
or anyone else.
I've tried to do good, and not
just what my appetites wanted,
but that was all infatuation
with this precious, isolated, body.
That you and I were constantly joining,
I didn't know. I didn't know
that even to ask "What are You?"
or "Who am I" breaks the harmony.
-- Lalla, version by Coleman Barks, from Naked Song, posted to AlongTheWay
Above all else, we need to nourish our true self -- what we can call our
buddha nature -- for so often we make the fatal mistake of identifying with
our confusion, and then using it to judge and condemn ourselves, which feeds
the lack of self-love that so many of us suffer from today.
How vital it is to refrain from the temptation to judge ourselves or the
teachings, and to be humorously aware of our condition, and to realize that
we are, at the moment, as if many people all living in one person.
And how encouraging it can be to accept that from one perspective we all
have huge problems, which we bring to the spiritual path and which indeed
may have led us to the teachings, and yet to know from another point of view
that ultimately our problems are not so real or so solid, or so
insurmountable as we have told ourselves.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche, posted to Distillation
I have stilled my restless mind, and my heart is
radiant: for in That-ness I have seen beyond
That-ness, in company I have seen the Comrade Himself.
Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have
broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.
Kabir says: "I have attained the unattainable,
and my heart is coloured with the colour of love."
-- Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore, from Songs of Kabir, posted to
AlongTheWay
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